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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How to read sequentially from a file in SH (not KSH)
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.023919.27584@virtech.uucp>
Date: 28 Apr 91 02:39:19 GMT
References: <1991Apr27.012336.2732@shibaya.lonestar.org>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:

>while read VAR1 VAR2 < $FILENAME; do
>  echo $VAR1 $VAR2
>done

use:

	while read VAR1 VAR2; do
		echo $VAR1 $VAR2
	done < $FILENAME

or:
	cat $FILENAME |
	while read VAR1 VAR2; do
		echo $VAR1 $VAR2
	done

>but I keep reading the first line in the file over and over.  Nothing in

This is because the shell kept reopening the file every time it went to 
execute the read.

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